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All are invited to receive an excellent locally relevant email called "Garden E-News", that is compiled & created with volunteer time by Shannon Maris. Each email contains a current list of the many local garden activities & work-parties that our local community creates. Pass on your event or info to her & request it be included in her next email.

- See You in the Garden or Around the Fire Circle! . . . . . . (HK 12/13/10)

“ In Masanobu Fukuoka's newest book, Sowing Seeds in the Desert,the earth is in great peril. Our global trauma, however, can be remedied, but only when we change our methods of earth stewardship, and the very way we think about the relationship between humans and nature... This revolutionary book presents Fukuoka's plan to rehabilitate the world’s deserts and achieve global food security by using natural farming, including practical solutions for feeding a growing human population and providing a deep and renewed understanding of the relationship between human beings and nature.”

The Food Bank Farm could use more volunteers this summer! We grow organic vegetables for local food banks, and volunteering here is really fun, plus you learn a lot about gardening/ farming, and can take home fresh produce! If interested, contact Max Morange: glean@bellinghamfoodbank.org.

Send the info below by Wed. June 27th to eatlocalfirst@sconnect.org (earlier is great)! 1. Title, date, time of event; 2. Event description - 100 words or less; 3. Contact person, email and phone number. Get your event on the calendar and in the Guide to September Eat Local Month, and the Whatcom County Farm Tour. We will print and distribute 50,000 copies this year.

To schedule a date to host a Garden (work) Party at your place, email Jean at artiseverywhere [at] yahoo [dot] com, or email: volunteer (at) sustainablebellingham.org . Thanks to Jean K for taking the scheduling lead this year!

Does anyone have a Scarlet Monkey flower and/or Yellow Monkey flower plant they would like to divide? I'm planting a bird and bee garden in a wet mostly shady area. Any other suggestions would be helpful.